Stormy Daniels’ good friend: Trump ‘would call all the time’ during affair

“She would go, ‘Oh look who’s calling me now,’ ” and would put Donald Trump on speakerphone whereas Munyan and Daniels listened, Munyan informed The Every day Beast and confirmed to CNN.

“He would call all the time,” Munyan mentioned, including that the calls occurred between 2006 and 2007, the time-frame by which Daniels alleges she was having an affair with Trump.

“That man can speak about nothing for hours,” Munyan mentioned.

He mentioned the conversations between Daniels and Trump have been businesslike.

“It was at all times about enterprise and what her targets are,” Munyan mentioned.

In accordance with Munyan, during a kind of conversations, Trump supplied Daniels keys to an condo in New York, which he says Daniels refused. He additionally says Trump supplied Daniels a spot on his NBC actuality present, “The Apprentice,” during one among the calls. That may be a element Daniels talked about in an In Contact journal interview in 2011, the solely interview by which Daniels herself has described the alleged affair with Trump.

In a lawsuit Daniels filed final week, she alleges the relationship with Trump began in the summer time of 2006, during a Lake Tahoe golf match, and lasted properly into 2007. Trump has denied the affair by means of statements by his lawyer and the White Home.

Munyan added that he knew of the relationship between Daniels and Trump whereas it was nonetheless taking place, and an interview with Munyan was beforehand reported by The Every day Beast. The truth is, Munyan mentioned he was at his dwelling with Daniels in 2007 when Trump despatched a limousine to choose her up and whisk her away to the Miss USA Pageant in Hollywood.

Munyan, knowledgeable photographer, is one among the 4 folks named in the nondisclosure settlement that was signed by Trump’s longtime private lawyer, Michael Cohen, and Daniels, whose authorized identify is Stephanie Clifford. The settlement was signed in October 2016, simply weeks earlier than the presidential election, to maintain Daniels from speaking about her alleged affair with Trump.

“The rationale she signed the NDA was to guard her household,” Munyan informed The Every day Beast. “She signed it as a result of she felt intimidated.”

Daniels additionally acquired $130,000 from Cohen to seal the deal, earlier than the election. On Monday, in a letter from her lawyer, Daniels supplied to present that cash again to Trump if he would let her converse freely and make the settlement null and void. Neither Trump nor his lawyer responded to the provide, in accordance with Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti.

Final month, Cohen admitted to creating a fee to Clifford, writing in a press release: “Neither the Trump Group nor the Trump marketing campaign was a celebration to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the fee, both straight or not directly.”

Following preliminary studies that Cohen had made the fee, he mentioned in a press release that Trump “vehemently denies” any encounter between the two.

Munyan, knowledgeable photographer who has shot celebrities and public figures for 25 years, met Daniels on a photograph shoot in 2005. He mentioned they bonded over the information that they’re each from Louisiana and love horses.

Munyan mentioned that it doesn’t matter what individuals who do not know her suppose, Daniels is “very clever, good and really articulate.” And, he says, most of all “she is humorous.”